Peel and chop the onion. Clean, wash and dice the bell peppers. Heat the oil in a roasting pan and fry the meat well all around. Add onion, paprika and bay leaf and fry briefly.
Add tomato paste, season well with salt, pepper, paprika and sugar. Stir, sweat and deglaze with stock and cream. Bring to the boil. Braise over medium heat for about 1 1/2 hours. Stir flour and 5 tablespoons of water until smooth.
Put the dumplings in plenty of boiling salted water and cook for 7 minutes. Lift out with a ladle and drain a little. In the meantime stir the flour into the boiling goulash. Bring to the boil again, simmer for 1 minute and season to taste with salt, pepper and paprika.
Wash parsley, shake dry, put some leaves aside for garnishing. Cut remaining parsley into fine strips. Turn dumplings in it. Arrange dumplings and goulash on plates, garnished with parsley.
Add the rest of the goulash.